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WATER CLOSET 0R URINAL.

No. 532,945. Patented Jan. 22, 1895.

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WATER CLOSET 0R URINAL.

Patented Jan. 22, 1895.

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FREDERICK BANCROFT BROWNING, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS,

ASSIGNOR TO THE YORK, N. Y.

MEYER-SNIFFEN COMPANY, LIMITED, NEW

WATER-CLOSET OR URINAL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,945, dated Januaryi2 2, 1 895.

A licationfiled November '10. 1894; Serial No. 528,368. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK BANCROFT BROWNING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Winchester, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have in vented certain new anduseful Improvements in Water-Closets or Urinals, of which the following is a specification.

My present improvements relate to that kind of Water closet structures and fittings made the subject matter of the Letters Patent granted to William Bunting, Jr., December 22, 1891, No. 465,609. The quadrantal outgo is at the back of the bowl and the quadrantal metal elbow which fits therein pro trudes through the wall and must be fixed or placed in position therein before it is conv In the Bunting construction this connection is diflicult of attainment; but the more serious difficulty in the Bunting construction occurs when, after the building has settled or the system of pipes has expanded or contracted, it is desired to disconnect or detach the closet. In practice, with the Bunting construction this detachment is quite impossible Without breaking the closet or disconnecting at the waste-pipe joints.

Myinvention has for its main object to provide a construction embodying the Bunting principle but wherein the objections recited are entirely overcome; and my invention has for a further object to provide a construction in which the elbow is adapted either for a closet bowl or a urinal bowl.

To these ends my invention consists in the devices, features ofconstruction, and combi nations and arrangements of parts hereinafter more fully described and particnlarlypointed .out in the appended claims. In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section of a water-closet structure embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the earthenware watercloset alone. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, taken at the line :0, as of Fig. 1, of the trap portion and flange of the closet. Fig. l is a vertical central section of the urinal type of bowl.

water closets embodying my improvements. Fig. 5 is a vertical centralsection of the metallic elbow fitting, detached and enlarged. Fig. 6 is a bottom plan view thereof; and Fig. 7 is a rear elevation of said fitting.

In the several views the same parts will be found designated by the same numerals reference. 1

1 designates the bowl, 2 the trap, 3 the quadrantal outgo, 4. the flushing rim and 5 the inlet thereto, all made of a single piece of earthenware.

The outgo begins at a point within the trap and curving upwardly andoutwardly terminates in a horizontal direction and in a vertical integral flange 6. The shape of the outgo at its junction with the flange willbe seen at Fig. 2. The upper portion is semi-circular, Ias at 7, the vertical sides straight and parallel, as at 8, 8, and the bottom straight and horizontal. As will be seen at Figs. 1 and 3, the lower side of the outer extremity of the outgo presents a flat horizontal ledge or seat 9, formed integral with which is a circular horizontal lip 10, which conforms to the crosssection of the up-leg of the trap. In the vertical back flange 6 is formed a continuous groove 11, corresponding substantially to the contour of the outgo. Adjacent to this groove,

exteriorly, are four perforations,'indicated by 12 and beyond these holes are four other holes indicated by 13. The holes 12 and 13 in the flange 6 are made in'vertical planes outside of the trap and the outgo, so that fastening bolts or screws may be conveniently inserted or provided with nuts in the setting of the The flange 6 is formed with a continuous rib 14 at its outer edge, thereby forming a continuous recess 15 between said rib and the edge of the outgo. In connection with said outgo and flange is employed a specially constructed metallic fitting comprising a quadrantal elbow 16 and a vertical attach- :ing flange 17, preferably formed integral.

At the mouth of the elbow and on its rear side is formed a horizontal flat flange or bearing 18 extending transversely and joining also the vertical flange 17 at its lower portion. The elbow is preferably provided with a rearwardly extending horizontally projecting neck 19 for attachment to a connecting pipe or branch 20, of the soil-pipe 21, and this neck may be either screw threaded or plain, as shown, according to the kind of joint which it may be desired to make.

The rear side of the flange 17 is made flat to lie squarely against the wall or partition 22 and at suitable points'near its edge is provided with perforations 23, for the securement of the fitting by bolts or screws to said wall or partition with the neck projecting rearwardly therethrough toward the soil-pipe. The front side or face of the flange 17 is provided with a continuous rib 24 adapted to match and enter the groove 11 in the earthenware flange 6, intermediate packing 25 being employed to form a tight joint. Between the mouth of the elbow and the lip 10 and the seat 9 and the flange 18 packing 26 is also employed.

While I have shown a space, at 27,between the top of the flange 18 and the under side of the horizontal portion of the outgo and prefer so to make the contrivance, this is not however essential to the main features of my invention. 1

The elbow fitting is first connected to the soil-pipe and secured to the wall with the quadrantal portion projecting into the apartment with its mouth down and in a horizontal plane. The closet or urinal bowl is then connected thereto by a simple sliding or slipping movement, the quadrantal earthenware outgo passing over the elbow, the seat 9 bearing the packing, coming under the flange 18, and the packed groove 11, fitting over the rib 24. The parts are then more firmly connected together by bolts or screws. The bolts which pass through or into the wall and attach the fitting thereto at the holes 23, project through the holes 12 also into the room and are provided with nuts. Other bolts or screws pass through the holes 13 and attach the flange 6 directly to the wall.

Upon examination it will be seen that the opening from the crown of the outgo, at its horizontal termination, to the horizontal seat 9, or the vertical distance from y to y, is greater than the distance vertically between the crown of the elbow and the mouth thereof, or from z to z, and that for this reason the outgo of the bowl may be readily slid or slipped upon or from the elbow, without any tortuous movementsor strains, and without the possibility of breakage of either the earthenware or the fitting or of disrupting thejoints or connections of the latter; thereby overcoming the objections inherent in the Bunting construction in which the circular opening of the outgo forms a hook or ledge under the lower curved side of the elbow, not only rendering the attachment of the parts difficult but practically precluding their detachment when once got together. From this,itwi1lbe 18 on the bottom of the elbow back of the ,mouth thereof and in the same plane therewith, a water tight joint may be readily formed between the outgo and the elbow below the water line of the trap.

In the closet bowl shown at Figs. 1, 2 and,

3, there is an extension of the flange 6, as the flange 6, which is perforated at 28 at its ups permost end for attachment by screws 29 to the wall. This integral flange 6 is recessed at 30 and grooved at 31, circularly, to receive an attaching plate 32 havinga rib 33, and an inlet supply pipe 34:.

In the urinal bowl shown at Fig. 4,triangular vanishing vertical ribs 35 extend up from the flange 6, to a recessed and grooved flange, which receives a ribbed attaching plate having an inlet-pipe, in substantially the manner described with reference to Fig. 1.

Instead of using packing between the horizontal seat or ledge 9 and the horizontal flange 18, the joint may be pointed up from the inside of the bowl.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the quadran tal elbow, with the bowl and trap having a quadrantal outgo terminating in a horizontal direction at the wall side of the bowl, the said outgo at its termination having an opening whose vertical measurement is greater than the distance directly between the horizontal plane of the crown of the elbow and the horizontal mouth of the elbow, whereby the outgo may be slid on and off the previously fitted elbow, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the quadrantal elbow having a horizontal flange or hearing back of the mouth thereof and a vertical attaching flange, with the bowl and trap having a quadrantal outgo provided at its termination with a horizontal seat or ledge and with a vertical attaching flange, as set forth.

3. The combination with the bowl, trap, quadrantal outgo and vertical attaching flange, the outgo having a horizontal seat or ledge, of the quadrantal elbow having a horizontal flange back of its mouth and a vertical attaching flange, and packing arranged between the said vertical flanges, as set forth.

4. The combination with the bowl, trap, quadrantal outgo and vertical attaching flange, the outgo having a horizontal seat or ledge and the flange a groove, of the quadrantal elbow having a horizontal flange back of its mouth and a vertical attaching flange provided with a rib, and intermediate packand State of Massachusetts, this 7th day of ing, as set forth. November, A. D. 1894.

5. The quadrantal elbow havin the verti- T cal attaching flange and the horizontal seat FREDERICK BANOROFT BROWNIM' 5 flange, for use in connection with a quadran- Witnesses:

tal outgo, substantially such as shown. GEORGE S. LITTLEFIELD,

Signed at Boston, in the county of Suffolk FRANK T. BENNER. 

